After the war of 1812 had ended, the British commander of Drummond's island in lake Erie on the northern peninsula of Michigan invited the Sioux to visit his post for a council.

When they arrived the commander thanked the Indians for fighting with the British against the United States. He pointed to some clothing and cheap trinkets piled on the floor and said these were gifts from the king.

Little Crow contemptuously kicked the pile and the trinkets scattered over the floor.

"Now after we have fought for you, endured many hardships, lost some of our people, and awakened the vengeance of a powerful nation, our neighbours, you make a peace for yourselves, and leave us to get such terms as we can," the Sioux chief told the garrison commander. "You no longer need our services, and offer us these goods as a compensation for having deserted us. But, no-we will not take them; we hold them and yourselves in equal contempt."

Then he walked out with great dignity, followed by his silent warriors.

Little Crow, or Chetañ wakan mañi (The Sacred Pigeon-hawk Which Comes Walking), was one of the hereditary chiefs of the Kaposia band who formed a dynasty among the Sioux. His grandson was the celebrated Little Crow who would lead the Indians during the Minnesota outbreak of 1862.

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McKenney saw Little Crow as "cunning, artful, and treacherous," but Schoolcraft thought him magnanimous. In his memoirs the ethnologist tells the story of how the Sioux chief had discovered a Chippewa robbing his traps. In the deep woods the penalty for this crime was death, but Little Crow handed the thief his traps and rifle.

"I come to present you the trap, of which I see you stand in need," he said. "Take my gun also... and return to the land of your countrymen...linger not here, lest some of my young men should discover your footsteps."
Little Crow came to Washington in 1824 as head of the Sioux delegation.